Recording device for use by storekeepers



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CHARLES FUCHS, OF LOB-TON, VIRGINIA.

RECORDING DEVICE FOR USE BY S'TOREKEEPERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Application filed'July 31, 1919. Serial No. 314,494.

are left for repairs, a. record may be kept of the name and address of the owner, a description of the articles, the nature of the repairs to be made, the name of the particular workman making such repairs, etc, such record being written upon a record sheet by the store-clerk or re airer and a carbon copy of such record being made simultaneously upon the face of an envelop arranged immediately beneath such record sheet, and in which envelop the article to be repaired is placed and sealed therein; the aforesaid record is kept by the storekeeper or repairerfor future reference in the event of any question arising concerning the article or the repairs made thereon.

The record sheet is provided with a numeral, preferably printed thereon, and a corresponding numeral is printed upon the envelop immediately beneath, whereby to more completely identify the article contained in the envelop.

My invention also embodies a tab upon which is printed a numeral corresponding to the aforesaid numerals on the record sheet and envelop, and upon which tab may be written any desired form of receipt for the person leaving the article, the said on velop being adapted to be readily detached from the said tab. and the latter being adapted to be readily detached from astub and given to'the person leaving the article.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, convenient and eiiicient device of the character referred to for carrying out the ideas referred to hereinabove, and the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts constituting thedevice, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out specifically in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating the record sheet forming part of my device.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the record sheet turned back and exposing the envelop and recei at tab which are arranged beneath said record sheet.

My complete device embodies firstly, an upper or record sheet upon which may be written various data such as the name and address of the person or owner leaving the article to be repaired, the nature of the repairs to be made, the amount of the repair charge, the name of the particular workman making the repairs, etc; secondly, an envelop arranged immediately beneath said record sheet and upon which envelop a carloon copy of the data written upon the record sheet is made; thirdly, a tab to which the envelop. is detachably connected and upon which tab a receipt for the article may be inscribed and which is to be detached and given to the person leaving the article.

In carrying out my invention I provide a sheet 1 of paper, the size and relative dimensions of which may be variec. The sheet 1 may be detached from the stub 2 if desired but is preferably left attached thereto.-

The sheet 1 is provided at some suitable point on its face with a numeral as 10, which is preferably. printed thereon, ,and upon said sheet may be inscribed various data such as the name and address and business of the storekeeper, the name and address of the person leaving the article to be repaired, the nature of the repairs to be made, the

charge to be made for the repairs, the name of the workman making the repairs, etc.

A numeral, as 10, corresponding to that printed upon the record sheet is printed upon the stub portion 2 of the record sheet.

Immediately beneath the sheet 1 is arranged a suitable envelop 4, the flap 5 of which is detachably connected with a stub 6 along a line of perforations 7 a portion as 7 of the stub 6 being detachable from the innermost portion of said stub along the line of perforations 8. Upon the face of the envelop is printed data corresponding to that printed upon the record sheet, such as the name, address and business of the storekeeper, and said envelop is to receive a carbon copy of the data written upon the record article brought by a person sheet, a carbon sheet being interposed be tween the two for this purpose.

Upon the envelop there is printed also a numeral as-1O corresponding to the numerals printed upon the record sheet and its stub, while the portion 7' of stub 6 also has a numeral as 10 printed thereon corresponding to the numerals printed on the envelop and record sheet and its stub.

The envelop is intended to receive the to be repaired. The name of the workman who is to make the repairs is written upon the record sheet, a carbon copy of such name being made simultaneously on the envelop. The envelop after being detached from the tab or portion 7 of stub 6 with the article therein is turned over to the workman, whoafter making the repairs delivers the envelop with the repaired article therein to the Storekeeper who 7 keeps the same until called for by the owner.

' A suitable receipt is written upon the stub of the record sheet, a duplicate or carbon copy thereof being 'made at the same time upon the portion 7 of stub 6 and'said portion 7 is iven to the person leaving the article, said receipt to be presented to the storekeeper or repair man when the repaired article is called for. V

The numeral as 10 printed upon the record sheet, its stub, the envelop andcthe stub 6 serves as an additional and positive means for identifying the particular article when the latter is returned to the store- 'keepe'r by the workman making the repairs,

and. when the owner calls for the said article, and it serves also as a means for en? abling the storekeeper 'toverify the charges made by the workman.

Any number of record sheets with their corresponding envelopes and stubs may be bound together in book form either perinanently or otherwise, and such record sheets preserved as a record by the Storekeeper for reference at any future time. 7

The record sheets may if desired be made of sufficent size to permit the same being divided up into several individual record slips or sheets in the same manner that ordlnary bank checks are prepared, said slips being adapted to be detached from each other if desired, and it being understood that there is always an envelop provided beneath each record sheet or slip.

What I claim and ters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described comprising a record sheet adapted to have identification data inscribed thereupon, a stub integral with said record sheet and upon which stub certain matter may be in scribed,an envelop arranged beneath said record sheet and adapted to receive a carbon copy of the data inscribed on the record sheet, a stub formed integrally. with the sealing flap oi" the envelop and lying immediately beneath the stub on the record sheet to receive a carbon copy of the matter inscribed on the last-mentioned stub, said record sheet and envelop and the stubs on said record sheet and envelop being provided with corresponding identifying numerals. 1

2. A device of the character described comprising a record sheet adapted to have identification data inscribed thereupon, a stub integral with said record sheet an upon which stub certain scribed, an envelop arranged beneath said record sheet and adapted to receive a carbon copy of the data inscribed upon the record sheet, a stub formed integrally with the sealing "flap of the envelop and lying immediately beneath the stub on the record sheet, the said stub integral with the sealing desire to secure by Letfiap of the envelop being divided into two portions one of which is readily separable from the other portion and adapted to receive a carbon copy of the matter inscribed on the stub of the record sheet, said record sheet, its stub, the envelop, and that portion of the stub immediately adjoining the envelop being provided with corresponding identifying numerals.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES FUCHS.

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